routinizationn.
/ruːˌtiːnʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /rʊˌtiːnʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrutn̩əˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌrutnˌaɪˈzeɪʃən/ 1. The imposition of routine on something previously less systematized or controlled; the fact of being or becoming routine in character or operation.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > routine > making or becoming routine
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1916 Educ. Admin. & Supervison May 331 A certain disregard for ‘school discipline’ and ‘classroom routinization’ in the ordinary sense of these terms.
1954 Encounter June 12/1 Coal mining..now—with the mechanisation of cutting and conveying—takes on much of the routinisation of factory work.
1960 Guardian 29 Apr. 11/1 Beatnik Tanya..excoriates the routinisation of sex in marriage.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 26 June 17/3 We are all equally liable to the lumpish routinization of compassion both maddening and necessary.
2006 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 39 411 The validity of this form of weather-collecting was based on the routinization of recordings.
2. Sociology. The transformation of charismatic leadership into institutional authority, either through the creation of a new bureaucracy formalizing the principles of the charismatic leader, or by a return to the traditional institutionalized structure. Hence: the incorporation of something innovative or unconventional into the institutionalized establishment.
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1942 T. Parsons in Rev. Polit. 4 73 Charismatic movements which..may readily, in the process of routinization, lead in a traditionalistic direction.
1960 D. Martindale Amer. Social Struct. x. 291 The charismatic leader of Mormonism was Joseph Smith. Brigham Young as his successor carried out the routinization of charisma, consolidating the movement with unusual ability.
1972 A. Giddens Politics & Sociol. in Thought of Max Weber iii. 39 The ‘routinisation’ of politics—that is to say, the transformation of political decisions into decisions of administrative routine.
1993 P. Collinson in J. McManners Oxf. Hist. Christianity vii. 268 Even the Anabaptists underwent routinization under the stabilizing leadership of a former Dutch priest, Menno Simons.
2007 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 72 437/1 In all types of organizations, bureaucratic routinization diminishes the power of charismatic founders and enhances the power of officials.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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